THE CULTURE OF REPAIR PROJECT

Kintsugi — "golden joinery" — "... the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise." (wikipedia) — also: boro, wabi-sabi, shibui, and mottainai